Word: spielbergism
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...exposes a particularly nasty cesspool of social pathology: the shopping mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire of the Sun, a surprisingly sunny best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale. But Ballard is also famous for a more sinister novel, Crash, about car-wreck aficionados in outer London, which David Cronenberg made into that notoriously creepy 1996 film, set in Los Angeles. Even typical Ballard tales, like Cocaine Nights...
...future of Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report, televisions and computers have been replaced by transparent screens on which life-size images appear to be floating in thin air. Watching Tom Cruise operate this fictional technology, David Lauren, Vice President of Ralph Lauren, was inspired to develop similar screens, but with a retail spin - his version would be implanted behind a store's glass window and would be touch sensitive, allowing window shoppers to interactively browse through Lauren merchandise and purchase what they saw using a built in credit-card swiper. The first of these screens was inaugurated on August...
...behavior Redstone really found unacceptable was Cruise's recent performance at the box office. As a New York Times list of his top-grossing films indicates, Cruise hasn't had a big hit this century that wasn't either directed by Steven Spielberg (himself a mass-audience magnet) or part of the Mission: Impossible franchise. And even there, in real dollars or inflated ones, each successive film has earned less money than the preceding...
...Still, that probably needs to happen sooner rather than later for Angelides. Last week Gov. Schwarzenegger collected the endorsements of prominent California Democrats and Dreamworks SKG studio founders Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg...
...were once called the next Spielberg. Do you think that?s true...